Both Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer and the expected House majority leader, Nancy Pelosi, want Whitaker to recuse himself from overseeing the Mueller investigation.

Crowds also turned out in Chicago; Greensboro, N.C.; Chattanooga, Tenn., and many other places.

Those opinions have led some leading Democrats, as well as protesters in several cities tonight, to call Whitaker to recuse himself and to protect Robert Mueller.

President Donald Trump's pick for acting attorney general, Matt Whitaker, is a close friend of Trump's 2016 election campaign co-chair, and a former government ethics chief said the friendship makes Whitaker unable to oversee impartially a politically charged investigation into the campaign.

To this point, Trump has heeded advice not to directly interfere, though a new chapter in the relationship with the probe may have begun with the appointment of Matthew Whitaker as new acting attorney general. He called Trump's recent actions "a rerun of the 'Saturday Night Massacre, ' " a reference to the October 20, 1973 resignations of the attorney general and deputy attorney general after each refused an order by President Richard Nixon to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox.

Few if any House Democrats were publicly using the "I" word after the Republicans' devastating political losses in what the Founding Fathers called "the people's house". Their chants said "Hey hey, ho ho, Whitaker has got to go", or "This is what democracy looks like".

In a column he wrote in August 2017, Whitaker said that Mueller had "come up to a red line in the Russian Federation 2016 election-meddling investigation that he is dangerously close to crossing".

"What I've been saying for months is every president deserves an attorney general they have confidence in and they can work with", he said. A similar protest in Portland was attended by more than 300 people.

BHP said around 1.5 kilometres of its privately-owned railway was destroyed, and expects it will take around a week to fix. Transport Minister Rita Saffioti said the National Rail Safety Regulator had been informed and was investigating .

It seems that her employer had caught on and she has now been fired due to a clear violation of the company's code of conduct. Police arrived at the scene, but were unable to locate Westwood, and issued a warrant for her arrest on October 30.

Niantic is celebrating 6 year anniversary since the release of Ingress and new updated version of Ingress has been launched. Although Ingress doesn't have quite the same player base as Pokemon Go , the game has enjoyed a loyal following for years.

For seemingly no reason in particular, Microsoft has made a decision to hand out free copies of two Xbox One games . The Korean Ratings Board provided a rating for the game in September, an nearly sure sign of its imminent release.

While welcoming Imran Khan , he said, "Pakistan China relations have already been strengthening, and now gained momentum". The Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) later said it would take "strict action" against those responsible.

The earth's protective ozone layer is well on track to recovery, thanks to global efforts against ozone-depleting substances. So a healed ozone layer will worsen man-made climate change there a bit, Newman said.

Users may now delete messages on the Messenger app but it only reflects on the sender's end and remains on the recipient's thread. We reported back in October about the functionality, pointing out the benefits and disadvantages of the Unsend messages option.

And it seems highly unlikely any Republican will vote for the woman their party has demonized in thousands of campaign ads. The U.S. and Saudi Arabia have always been key allies, and Trump made the country his first stop overseas as president.

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